Local subgiants and time-scales of disc formation

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006mnras.369..673b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 369, Issue 2, pp. 673-676.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Evolution: Stars: Fundamental Parameters: Galaxy: Evolution: Galaxy: Formation, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Fundamental Parameters, Galaxy: Evolution, Galaxy: Formation

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Detailed evolutionary tracks and basic stellar parameters for the nearby subgiants 104 Tau and HD 168443 are presented and discussed. Both serve as invaluable key stars for accurate age-datings, especially as they possess the chemical signatures intermediate to the stars of the thick- and thin-disc population. We derive τ = 9.7-0.6+0.8 Gyr for 104 Tau and τ = 9.8-0.8+1.0 Gyr for HD 168443, very much in line with their local sibling HR 7569 at τ = 9.1 +/- 1.0 Gyr that was formerly presented in Bernkopf, Fiedler & Fuhrmann. Both, 104 Tau and HD 168443, thus add to our local sample of the rare but very relevant subgiants for the disc formation time-scales and support the notion of a thick disc as an extremely old τ >= 12 Gyr single-burst population, and a thin disc that has a local age of τ ~ 8 Gyr.

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